Nominate the third inductee into the RPG Hall of Fame!

[Morrus]

So far we have Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Both well deserved, of course!

We induct one person per month. Who should be next month (April)? Post your suggestions (and reasons) in this thread!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Peter Adkinson. Reason: well, duh! No modern D&D without him.

Eric Noah after. Again, if you have to ask ...

 

[D'karr]

Rel's mule in Gygax's game.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

As much as I don't especially care for the games he came out with Mark Rein*Hagen - the dude created work that challenged (and maybe for a month or two outsold) D&D and defined a decade with his book's approach and playstyle. Personally I don't think that Planescape would have existed, or at the very least, looked very very different without the Storyteller games.

 

[Rabulias]

Seconding Eric Noah.

Steve Jackson (the US one)?

 

[jonesy]

Major David Wesely, Ret.

Came up with the idea of the Roleplaying Game according to Arneson.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

David Wesely - clearly he's up there with Gary and Dave.

 

[vegaserik01]

Ed Greenwood, Erol Otus, Clyde Caldwell, Larry Elmore. Greenwood cause of the Realms and the others all defined D&D in art for the first generation of role players.

 

[Storminator]

Steve Jackson was the first name to pop to mind. Maybe that's because I played Melee (and its follow on In the Labyrinth) before D&D.

PS

 

[Shadowsmith]

Erick Wujcik, a great guy who wrote the Amber Diceless RPG and was involved with Palladium games.

The Amber Diceless system was a wonderful experiment in game design and play. While running it, I learned more about GMing than any other system.